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Papers

(The median citation count of Public Understanding of Science is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections	59
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies	35
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science	33
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward	32
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries	32
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science	31
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era	29
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception	28
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter	26
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies	23
Socio-economic status and authority deference: Understanding public (dis)engagement with science in Europe	22
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science	22
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media	21
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis	21
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs	20
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain	20
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’	19
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society	19
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing	18
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk	18
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device	18
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia	18
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review	17
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones	17
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology	16

1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science	15
Female expertise in public discourses: Visibility of female compared to male scientific experts in German media coverage of eight science-related issues	15
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism	15
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America	15
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom	15
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale	14
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media	14
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science	14
Political ideology-driven perceptions of experts and their claims	14
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos	13
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media	13
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism	13
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy PerezMyrnaCriticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle	13
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates	13
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system	13
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese	12
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?	12
First-in-human gene therapy clinical trials in the media: Exploring patient narratives	12
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media	12
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle	12
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach	12
Thank you reviewers	11
Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes	11
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action	11
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films	11
Book Review: Maya Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives	11
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change	10
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education	10
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units	10
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers	10
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework	10
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media	10
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?	10
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination	9
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement	9
Public perceptions of climate tipping points	9
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism	9
Thank you reviewers	9
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat	9
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan	9
Disseminating the Italian history of medicine: Arturo Castiglioni and his project at the University of Padua, 1933–1943	8
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science	8
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena	8
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife	8
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online	8
1796 – An Introduction to Botany : The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young girls in Britain	8
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada	8
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism	8
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews	8

The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study	8
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis	8
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis	8
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data	8
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’	8
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community	8
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study	7
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale	7
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?	7
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review	7
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students	7
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) RudolphJohn L.Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 224	7
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism	7
Martin W. Bauer: ‘“Truth-value” is not the only criterion of validity, there is also the felicity of performative knowledge claims . . .’	7
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns	7
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries	7
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse	7
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics	6
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage	6
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media	6
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia	6
Book Review: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest	6
Contesting state expertise after COVID-19	6
Effects of epistemic beliefs, science populism, and social media use on climate change misperceptions	6
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States	6
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science	6
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies	6
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)	6
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era	6
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps	6
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation	6
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn	6
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability	5
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies	5
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology	5
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies	5
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques	5
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement	5
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands	5
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef’s 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook	5
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy	5
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs	5
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona	5
Work and the public understanding of science	4
Trust, experience, and innovation: Key factors shaping American attitudes about AI	4
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals	4
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys	4
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?	4
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum	4
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland	4
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation	4
Book review: Jean Paul Bertemes, Serge Haan and Dirk Hans (eds), 50 Essentials on Science Communication (co-created by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg National Research Fund)	4
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication	4
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?	4
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black	4
Scientists’ public engagement goals: Perceived importance and personal prioritization	4
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan	3
Natural history museum visitors’ use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios	3
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science	3
Book Review: Andrew Hoffmann, The Engaged Scholar – Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World	3
Thank you reviewers	3
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments	3
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey	3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes	3
Looking back and looking ahead	3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news	3
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries	3
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology	3
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication	3
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship	3
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties	3
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak	3
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science	3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample	3
Can homeopathy cure all diseases? Subgroups of homeopathy users based on beliefs about whether and how homeopathy should be used to treat serious conditions	3
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology	3
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes	3
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion	3